Quotes About Empathy

From now on there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother and sister when we learn to listen to them.

The church is church only when it is there for others.

Non è l'atto religioso che fa il cristiano, ma la sua partecipazione al dolore di Dio nella vita del mondo.

Whoever despises another human being will never be able to make anything of him. Nothing of what we despise in another is itself foreign to us.

We break bread with the hungry[78] and share our home with them[79] for the sake of Christ's love, which belongs to the hungry as much as it does to us. If the hungry do not come to faith, the guilt falls on those who denied them bread. To bring bread to the hungry is preparing the way for the coming of grace.

83]So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service is always to have to "offer" something when they are together with other people. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people seek a sympathetic ear and do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking even when they should be listening.

May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.

Genuine love is always self-forgetful in the true sense of the word.

How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear.

29]The only fruitful relation to human beings—particularly to the weak among them—is love, that is, the will to enter into and to keep community with them. God did not hold human beings in contempt but became human for their sake.

I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated

To bear the burden of the other person means involvement with the created reality of the other, to accept and affirm it, and, in bearing with it, to break through to the point where we take joy ink.

Chúng ta c?n h?c cách Ä'ánh giá ng??i khác không ph?i thông qua cái h? làm, hay cái h? b? sót không làm, mà qua nh?ng kh? Ä'au h? Ä'ã tr?i qua

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love?

The hungry person needs bread, the homeless person needs shelter, the one deprived of rights needs justice, the lonely person needs community, the undisciplined one needs order, and the slave needs freedom" (p. 97). Treating human beings as things, commodities, and machines is a special hindrance to receiving Christ

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don't insist on your rights, don't blame each other, don't judge or condemn each other, don't find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts…

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.